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What The Internet Does To Our Brains

May 072013

In just a matter of a few decades, the world has literally been flipped upside-down with the culmination of the Internet. Sure, there are countless benefits we get from the web, but there are negatives too.

As educational YouTuber Epipheo discusses in his latest video, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, our brains rewards us for distracting new tid-bits of information which was helpful when he still lived in caves.

But now, many of us have created compulsions to check our emails and the latest tweets without ever getting to more critical thinking and memory making.

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The History Of Typography Stop Motion Animation

May 052013

Our modern world is so peppered with text and type, most people rarely pay any attention to the typography of words. Linguists nerd Ben Barrett-Forrest is changing all that with his new History Of Typography stop motion animation.

He discusses how the power to express words all started with Johannes Gutenberg, the unofficial father of typography. From Gutenberg came thousands more typefaces, many of which we still use and see today.

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What is Freezer Burn?

May 042013

Now that summer is here, people will again be filling their freezers with Popsicles and ice cream for a cool treat. But have you ever noticed that brittle layer of ice that builds up on foods sometimes when left in the freezer too long?

It’s pretty gross and basically ruins the food for good. But why wonders Minute Earth? Sublimation. The water moisture in the food actually exits and freezes on the outside. Kind of like freeze drying your food.

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Why Do Humans Kiss?

May 012013

There’s no question that once a person hits puberty, kissing becomes an obsession. But if you think about the actual act, it’s pretty gross. So why do we kiss?

There are many hypotheses, but as Vsauce explains, the answer could be related to kiss feeding.

Remember when popular actress Alicia Silverstone went viral feeding her song mouth to mouth, mother bird style? By the way, that video stands with nearly two million disapproving views.

Well, even though it looks and seems disgusting, there can be many benefits to kiss feeding. And before commercial baby food, the feeding format was a lot more common.

Perhaps we were kiss feeding as a species for countless generations before better food alternatives were found.

But that’s just one idea. Kissing is also very likely linked to the fact that important chemicals and hormones are transferred during a kiss, which, over millions of years, could lead to an evolved species like us that just loves kissing.

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The Story Of Frozen Food

Apr 272013

Today, most of people don’t even think about the luxury we take for granted of popping a frozen pizza into the oven from the home freezer.

But of course, life wasn’t always so simple. For centuries, humans have been trying to preserve food for later, but, as Minute Earth rightfully points out, the most common methods, such as salting or smoking, aren’t always the most healthful.

It wasn’t until the the turn of the 20th century that American entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye–as in Birdseye frozen foods–discovered flash freezing techniques from the native Inuit people in Arctic Canada that frozen foods became so ubiquitous in our modern world.